On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:41, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > In very general terms - as I understand it the restriction is the US ban > > on the export of 'encryption software'. > > That was dropped years ago. > > > How Micro$oft get around it I don't know, maybe they've just got big > > lawyers and lots of influence. > > They have to get licenses in advance of exporting crypto (though the > licenses are trivially easy to get). > > > So, to avoid the spooks from throwing some Debian mirror's owner into > > jail for 50,000 years for including some app. with encryption built in, > > such apps are only carried on mirrors outside the US. > > Crypto has been in Main and carried on US mirrors for years. The only > requirement now is that when a new crypto program is uploaded a copy of the > source must be emailed to the Commerce Dept. > > I believe that the only things left in non-us are programs that infringe US > patents.
So I'm way out of date on that. I think that's why non-US got started though? cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
